Images
20180211. Kipling Station has new cladding and a new spelling.
20171116. The so-called Porcupine drain, on the site of the demolished St. Lawrence North Market, a site used for food retailing for 214 years, dates back to 1831.
20170913. The east facade of the Toronto Fire and EMS Training Centre.
Looking up at Metropolitan Place (1 University Avenue).
University of Ottawa’s Brutalist Morisset Hall was built in 1972 to centralize library system administration.
20170721. Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch).
20170714. Colonel By Hall, the Brutalist home of University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Engineering.
20170708. Ottawa’s Place Bell Parkade, a striking array of slits and slats.
20170703. Shadows of trench-spanning struts at the Strachan Avenue railway underpass.
20170702. Ottawa’s 1966 modern precast concrete Burnside Building.
20170316. The full narrower west elevation of the modernist 1958 limestone-clad former Shell Oil building at 505 University Avenue including the 7 additional floors added 8 years later.
20170307. The 1892 Queen Anne Revival 2.5-storey fourplex Henry Mullen Buildings shall remain in the Westbank-developed Mirvish Village.
20170207. The vintage modernist Oriole Arms apartments in Toronto’s Deer Park neighbourhood.
20170131. TTC’s Kipling Station Bus Platform from the tracks.
20170117. Currently, the Deer Park United Church (1912, Gothic Revival) is open to everyone.
20170115. Deer Park United Church is transcept-free. The apse and attached two-floor buildings that obscured the apse have been removed but the remainder will adjoin a new condominium development (image 1).
20161206. The redesigned Berczy Park, with its granite pavers in diamond shapes, is open and almost complete in Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood.
20161204. A peek at the postmodern predilection of the planned St. Lawrence Neighbourhood’s C-2 Block.
20161119. The Yonge Street rise from Davenport to Deer Park
20161115. The temporary rear view of Toronto’s St. Lawrence Hall. Architect William Thomas, Classic Revival, 1851.
20161112. “Night Truss” and “Centre Span Xs” on the Queen Street Viaduct.
20160906. Imminent demolition of the St. Lawrence Market North Building may unearth 200 years of history.
20160322. Enjoying a private moment at the suitably coloured TD Place stadium, home of the Ottawa Red Blacks.
20160224. From Dow Corning to Church of the Resurrection, another great Macy Dubois modernist building (1965).
